Add -ed to Make the Past Tense
Year 2 past tense worksheet: add -ed to twelve verbs using three spelling rules, then change four verbs in sentences. Answer key included.
Year 2 Past Tense Worksheets
Year 2 past tense worksheets: adding -ed to regular verbs, irregular past tense verbs such as went, ran and saw, and keeping the same tense through a piece of writing.
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Present or Past?
Year 2 tense worksheet: sort fourteen verbs into present and past, then circle the verb in eight sentences and write now or past. With answers.
Irregular Past Tense Verbs
Year 2 irregular verbs worksheet: write the past tense of twelve verbs such as go and see, then complete a zoo story. Answer key included.
Change the Diary to the Past Tense
Year 2 past tense worksheet: rewrite a present tense diary in the past tense, changing eight verbs, then add a sentence. Answer key included.
Spot the Tense Mistake
Year 2 past tense worksheet: find and correct the wrong verb in eight sentences, then pick out the clue words. Answer key included.
Past Tense Check
Year 2 past tense check: add -ed to four verbs, write four irregular past tenses, fix two sentences and tick come. Answer key included.
Curriculum objectives covered
Writing - spelling
“Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter”
Writing - spelling
“Adding the endings –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“The present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form”
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“Use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.”
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Reading Comprehension
Predicting what might happen next on the basis of what has been read so far, and discussing the sequence of events in books.
Writing
Planning what to write and encapsulating ideas sentence by sentence, building towards longer pieces of connected writing.
Spelling
Learning to spell common exception words and applying the spelling patterns and rules taught in Year 2.
Grammar and Punctuation
Writing sentences with different forms — statement, question, exclamation and command — and choosing the correct form for the purpose.
Adjectives
Year 2 adjectives worksheets: finding describing words, choosing adjectives for nouns, expanded noun phrases such as the big red bus, and using adjectives in sentences.
Contractions
Year 2 contractions worksheets: using an apostrophe to show missing letters in can't, didn't, it's and I'll, matching contractions to their full forms and writing them in sentences.